Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruce S. Kahn, a second year Law student, said that the demonstrators appeared in the back of the class at the beginning of the period, "After about 20 minutes they began to drift forward, passing out bread and Christmas candy and saying 'Merry Christmas Richard Kleindienst and Spiro Agnew.' They completely ignored Cox the whole time," he said...
...would like to nominate Vice President Spiro Agnew for Man of the Year. He has stood up and loudly and forcefully proclaimed what the great majority of this country has been softly murmuring. Surely this man was heaven-sent...
...televised attacks on the news media, Vice President Spiro Agnew urged readers and viewers to join him in commenting on the performance of the nation's newspapers and television stations. Thousands accepted his invitation, and the result has been one of the greatest outpourings of mail in American journalistic history. The three major TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, have received more than 130,000 letters, telephone calls and telegrams, most of them supporting Agnew. Several newspapers report a greater volume of critical mail than at any time since the McCarthy...
Angry as all the mail is, it could be worse-and has been for the television networks, where issues more vital to viewers than politics are at stake. NBC, for example, has received 60,000 Agnew-inspired letters. It got far more when it canceled the space opera Star Trek at the end of last season...
...antiwar dissenters and campus radicals last spring when Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst was quoted in the Atlantic magazine as saying: "If people demonstrated in a manner to interfere with others, they should be rounded up and put in a detention camp." Then Vice President Spiro Agnew remarked that "the rotten apples" should be separated from our society...